Moving away from local-based flood risk policy in Austria

摘要: AbstractFloodplain areas across the world have always played an attractive role for residential and non-residential developments. The Alpine regions a strong pressure to develop new buildings in hazard due lack of other suitable development. Consequently, number elements at risk vulnerability flood hazards increased. In order reduce vulnerability, focus mitigation was decades on structural engineering measures with problem spatial misfits between threat management strategy. Since late 1990s/early 2000s, Austrian policy makers been trying overcome this misfit implementation inter-local co-operation approach use so-called ‘new planning’ (Heley, 2013) planning process. Therefore, paper examines what actors stakeholders are doing practice how concept fuzziness helps. Although partnership may be se...